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Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, USA |
Duration | 02:31 |
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 03:06 |
Moist von Lipwig is a con-man with a particular talent-- he is utterly unremarkable. When his execution is stayed in Terry Pratchett's remarkable Discworld, he must work off his debt to society as the land's head Postman. Things are not always as they seem, and soon Lipwig is delivering mail for his very life!
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA |
Duration | 01:55 |
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama, music, biography |
Country | Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar, Netherlands, Egypt, United Arab Emirates |
Mohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Denmark |
Duration | 02:11 |
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada, USA |
Duration | 01:37 |
With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:20 |
An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | comedy, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:39 |
Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada, USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:36 |
Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:33 |
Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, Germany, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:10 |
Irresponsible party girl Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is kicked out of her father's (Ken Howard) and stepmother's (Candice Azzara) home, where she lives for free, and is taken in by her hard-working sister, Philadelphia lawyer Rose (Toni Collette). After Maggie's disruptive ways ruin her sister's love life, Rose turns her out as well. But when their grandmother, who they never knew existed, comes into their lives, the sisters face some complicated truths about themselves and their family.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
A pregnant widow, believing herself to be guided by her unborn child, embarks on a homicidal rampage.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:24 |
Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to the present.
Mark | imdb: 3.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Russia |
Duration | 01:25 |
Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia’s restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer into the territory of murder. In the final credits, the director apologizes to Jim Jarmusch, whose work (in the anthology Coffee and Cigarettes, which Jarmusch shot in pieces over many years) Oldenburg-Svintsov is clearly indebted to. Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes’s kinship with Jarmusch’s film extends to the fact that superstars play tiny roles in almost all of the vignettes.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:41 |
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:52 |
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates |
Duration | 02:33 |
A young woman who dreams of being a children's author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, documentary, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:26 |
The extraordinary story of the planet’s most famous contemporary scientist, told in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking’s private life, this is an intimate and moving journey into Stephen's world, both past and present.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:37 |
15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy, Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar problems arise in his relationship with Jordana.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Spain |
Duration | 02:01 |
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
Mark | imdb: 4.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:06 |
What do you do when the party of the year kicks you to the curb? Simple... create your own! When Sean and his friends are refused entry to the night of their year, they embark on a mission to stage a monster event, whilst at the same time taking down the opposition.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:09 |
Mike Leigh’s much praised 2010 tragicomical drama. During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom, South Africa, Rwanda |
Duration | 01:28 |
The extraordinary story of three Rwandan children who attempt to realize the dream of their life: to attend the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2010 at Johannesburg.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA, Belgium |
Eddie and Amber decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to the liberal hub of London. The plan seems solid, but as their arrangement begins to fall apart, Eddie’s denial gets deeper as Amber realizes that a perilous future awaits her best friend unless she intervenes.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
A socially awkward, environmentally-conscious teenager named AJ is dragged to a coastal holiday park by her painfully 'normal' family, where she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a chlorine smelling, sun-loving lifeguard named Isla.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Italy |
Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposing characters and working schedules: he works a night job as a doorman in a hotel, and she works as an employee for a rental car service. This is the story of what happens to Guido and Antonia when they decide to have a child.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Four old school friends reunite to attempt the epic coast to coast walk, across the United Kingdom. As their journey unfolds, this comically incompatible foursome walk full tilt into their mid-life crises.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:35 |
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Denmark |
Duration | 01:30 |
After finding out that her husband cheated on her, Lise and her two daughters Ditte and Sigrid decides to go on vacation to Malta. The two sisters are very different and tries to cheer the mother up in very different ways. All inclusive is a movie about love and figuring out how to be a family.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Sweden |
Duration | 02:04 |
Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.
Mark | imdb: 4.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama, family |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:25 |
There's only two weeks left for the recently divorced Danny to re-marry and inherit his family's estate. With time running out he turns to cyberspace to identify the man of his dreams and get married on time. Having created a master plan for the whole event, Danny is sure he'll reach his goal; no problem. If they do it on TV, how hard could it be in real life?
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:03 |
In a small Welsh town where people talk to themselves we meet Jim, a lonely teenager who is given the chance to increase his popularity when a cool American kid moves in next door. Written and directed by Craig Roberts, who also plays the lead role.